Installing The Firepower Device In A Rack - Cisco AMP8050 Hardware Installation

Installing the Firepower Device in a Rack

Installing the Firepower Device in a Rack
You can rack-mount all Firepower devices. When you install an appliance, you must also make sure that
you can access its console. To access the console for initial setup, connect to the appliance in one of the
following ways:
Keyboard and Monitor/KVM
Do not use a KVM console with USB mass storage to access the appliance for the initial setup because
Caution
the appliance may attempt to use the mass storage device as a boot device.
Ethernet Connection to Management Interface
After initial setup, you can access the console in the following additional ways:
Serial Connection/Laptop
Lights-Out Management Using Serial over LAN
You can use Lights-Out Management on the default (
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You can connect a USB keyboard and VGA monitor to a Firepower device, which is useful for
rack-mounted appliances connected to a keyboard, video, and mouse (KVM) switch.
Configure a local computer, which must not be connected to the Internet, with the following network
settings:
IP address:
–
192.168.45.2
netmask:
–
255.255.255.0
default gateway:
–
192.168.45.1
Using an Ethernet cable, connect the network interface on the local computer to the management
interface on the appliance. Note that the management interface is preconfigured with a default IPv4
address. However, you can reconfigure the management interface with an IPv6 address as part of the
setup process.
You can connect a computer to any Firepower device using the physical serial port. Connect the
appropriate rollover serial cable (also known as a NULL modem cable or Cisco console cable) at
any time, then configure the remote management console to redirect the default VGA output to the
serial port. To interact with the appliance, use terminal emulation software such as HyperTerminal
or XModem. The settings for this software are 9600 baud, 8 data bits, no parity checking, 1 stop bit,
and no flow control.
The serial port on a Firepower 8000 Series device uses an RJ-45 connection.
After you connect the appropriate rollover cable to your device, redirect the console output as
described in the Firepower 8000 Series Getting Started Guide. To locate the serial port for each
appliance model, use the diagrams in
The LOM feature allows you to perform a limited set of actions on a Firepower Management Center
or Firepower device using a SOL connection. If you need to restore a LOM-capable appliance to
factory defaults and do not have physical access to the appliance, you can use LOM to perform the
restore process. After you connect to an appliance using LOM, you issue commands to the restore
utility as if you were using a physical serial connection. For more information, see the Firepower
8000 Series Getting Started Guide.
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